Aym, they are fab! and great that they don't need constant watering (lazy gardener here). I haven't seen lavertera as seeds before only the big pink tree ! so I'll be on the look out - when did you sow them and in trays or direct? will alos be converted back to nicotiana too ( always disliked the yellow washed out look).
Great advice thanks guys, what can I buy that will flower for longer, I just found some Guernsey and Amazon Lilly bulbs in my poundland reduced to 50p so thought theyd be worth a bash.
True Guernsey Lilies are highly sort after, I don't have any pictures yet but hope to have some later in the year Rory. At 50p that is a real bargain. Looking forward to seeing any pictures on here as they grow.
There is usually an open viewing of various types of lilies later in the year by the Guernsey Lily society and if possible I will go along with camera. The leaves come up first followed by the flower and as yet we have no leaves showing through.
I have taken on board everybody's advice and will be raising the bed heights. I manged to get my hanging basket back to its former glory and look really good now. Here are the current pictures of how my plants look. Some seem to be making good progress and growing new buds and leaves however others seem dormant and I am not sure how to prune/cut back. I also am having trouble identifying a few of the plants. Any identifying, advice much appreciated, you can compare to them a few weeks back on the pictures at the start of this thread. Thanks
Growing new buds/leaves/flowers:
Phlox
Dianthus x5 (1 bed, 1 large pot, 4 tiny pots)
Osteospermum- Tresco Purple
Gypsopjila- Summer Sparkles
Digitalis- Fox Glove x2
Dahlia
Having issues not sure how to prune/cut back/maintain:
Delphinium x2- Magic fountains lavender and dark blue with white bee (1 accidently snapped off at base and is growing fresh leaves, other one dropped all flowers as has no new shoots, just pods at the top)
Lilum- Lemon Pixie (lost all flowers straight away and looks like it is being eaten/yellowing, no sign of new shoots)
Unidentifiable (Can anybody identify these so I can google fact sheets, have looked for ages!) I dont know how to prune maintain these!
Indoor plant one is yellowing (same conditions as other!) Tall red spike thingis growing new leaves but spikes are dead, do I cut them, how do I get those to reflower? Yellow/Orange Ive pulle dout all the deadheds that were seeding but no idea what the plant is called, does look there are new buds thought. The 'sunflowers' have had tonnes of light and plenty of water but are wiliting! Not sure they are sunflowers as they have 6 heads the top ones are dying, do I cut them, prune?
The delphinium.. cut the flower spike off below the lowest seed pod. It may reflower or build up strength for next year.
The Primula vialii, ( looks like a poker on a stick) will not reflower this year. If you cut off the dead head it will build up strength for next year.
Gazanias,(yellow spike daisy flowers) dead head and they will repeat flower until the frosts.
You have miniature branched sunflowers. As the main ones petals fade, dead head it and side shoots will reflower.
Your indoor plants are Dracaenas, They just look like that.
The lily, I just cut off the flower head. That stops it making seeds, and the leaves can push nutrient back into the bulb to build it up for next year.
If the sunflower main flower has already wilted , cut it off to encourage the side shoots. Otherwise it puts its energy into making seed. I would let it do that later on in the year.
Ok great im a bit concerned as there is no real place to cut the main head as it has 4 heads attached very close underneath it. Also the lilly there is no flower head as the flower has died, not sure how far back to go.
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Aym, they are fab! and great that they don't need constant watering (lazy gardener here). I haven't seen lavertera as seeds before only the big pink tree ! so I'll be on the look out - when did you sow them and in trays or direct? will alos be converted back to nicotiana too ( always disliked the yellow washed out look).
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Great advice thanks guys, what can I buy that will flower for longer, I just found some Guernsey and Amazon Lilly bulbs in my poundland reduced to 50p so thought theyd be worth a bash.
True Guernsey Lilies are highly sort after, I don't have any pictures yet but hope to have some later in the year Rory. At 50p that is a real bargain. Looking forward to seeing any pictures on here as they grow.
There is usually an open viewing of various types of lilies later in the year by the Guernsey Lily society and if possible I will go along with camera. The leaves come up first followed by the flower and as yet we have no leaves showing through.
I have taken on board everybody's advice and will be raising the bed heights. I manged to get my hanging basket back to its former glory and look really good now. Here are the current pictures of how my plants look. Some seem to be making good progress and growing new buds and leaves however others seem dormant and I am not sure how to prune/cut back. I also am having trouble identifying a few of the plants. Any identifying, advice much appreciated, you can compare to them a few weeks back on the pictures at the start of this thread. Thanks
Growing new buds/leaves/flowers:
Phlox
Dianthus x5 (1 bed, 1 large pot, 4 tiny pots)
Osteospermum- Tresco Purple
Gypsopjila- Summer Sparkles
Digitalis- Fox Glove x2
Dahlia
Having issues not sure how to prune/cut back/maintain:
Delphinium x2- Magic fountains lavender and dark blue with white bee (1 accidently snapped off at base and is growing fresh leaves, other one dropped all flowers as has no new shoots, just pods at the top)
Lilum- Lemon Pixie (lost all flowers straight away and looks like it is being eaten/yellowing, no sign of new shoots)
Unidentifiable (Can anybody identify these so I can google fact sheets, have looked for ages!) I dont know how to prune maintain these!
Indoor plant one is yellowing (same conditions as other!) Tall red spike thingis growing new leaves but spikes are dead, do I cut them, how do I get those to reflower? Yellow/Orange Ive pulle dout all the deadheds that were seeding but no idea what the plant is called, does look there are new buds thought. The 'sunflowers' have had tonnes of light and plenty of water but are wiliting! Not sure they are sunflowers as they have 6 heads the top ones are dying, do I cut them, prune?
The delphinium.. cut the flower spike off below the lowest seed pod. It may reflower or build up strength for next year.
The Primula vialii, ( looks like a poker on a stick) will not reflower this year. If you cut off the dead head it will build up strength for next year.
Gazanias,(yellow spike daisy flowers) dead head and they will repeat flower until the frosts.
You have miniature branched sunflowers. As the main ones petals fade, dead head it and side shoots will reflower.
Your indoor plants are Dracaenas, They just look like that.
Ah great stuff, I will chop my delphenium and vialli poker stick heads off then.
What do you think of my dyanthias and phlox these are supposed to be easy and mine are looking a bit ropey?
Also with the sunflowers should I be cutting off the main big head in the middle?
The yellow lily will it die back to the ground including all leaves, not sure where to cut this one?
The lily, I just cut off the flower head. That stops it making seeds, and the leaves can push nutrient back into the bulb to build it up for next year.
If the sunflower main flower has already wilted , cut it off to encourage the side shoots. Otherwise it puts its energy into making seed. I would let it do that later on in the year.
Ok great im a bit concerned as there is no real place to cut the main head as it has 4 heads attached very close underneath it. Also the lilly there is no flower head as the flower has died, not sure how far back to go.